Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

Hi Ski, Performance is of course not really great but surprisingly good. I evaluated (very shortly) against mounting via NFS, and NFS just sucks with backuppc. I think it depends on the NFS server you are using. I have over 1500 clients backing up via 7 backuppc servers attached via nfs

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

Hi, This is probably the wrong place to ask, but people on the right lists won't have experience with the kind of disk activity that backuppc creates. I have my main backuppc server set up so I can periodically swap and raid-sync a new disk and keep a copy offsite. I'd like to have a

Re: [BackupPC-users] vmware/virtuabox/etc.?

Hi, I'm looking for something that can be fired up easily on a windows/mac without much concern for its physical hardware, so I don't think Xen is a good fit. I do have a dual-boot laptop - but it spends much of its time in the same building as the data being backed up and I'd like a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Problem with cpool after xfs_repair

Hi there, My suspicion is that I should do something like: Run BackupPC_link over each last full backup of my hosts, then I should get roughly my cpool back. But how do I do that? BackupPC_link relies on the NewFiles (similar name) file, so I cannot simply run it manually, can I? I

[BackupPC-users] Problem with cpool after xfs_repair

Hi there, after more than one extensive xfs_repair, my cpool seems to be far to empty ... before the filesystem error, I had around 600 GB, now it's below 100 GB. However, backups run well. I suspect that xfs_repair tidied up a lot in the cpool directory, so BackupPC_nightly doesn't find the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Arguments for --filter don't get proper escaping

Hi, Is your space character different from the one above (other than being escaped As far as I see, no - you are thinking of tab or sth.? Unfortunately, the issue arose another time: I'm backing up a system via ssh - sudo rsync ... again, I specified '--filter=:- /nobackup.txt' in the

[BackupPC-users] Arguments for --filter don't get proper escaping

Hi there, I'm thrilled of this just discovered feature of rsync: --filter Now I want to use it in BackupPC, so I added this to $Conf{RsyncArgs}: '--filter=:- /nobackup.txt' My problem is that there seems to be something wrong with the escaping of the space ... I observed that with an rsyncd as

Re: [BackupPC-users] Arguments for --filter don't get proper escaping

Hi Holger, I observed that with an rsyncd as backup partner, everything seems to work fine, but with a command line rsync, it's odd: Running: /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/rsync --server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times --block-size=2048

Re: [BackupPC-users] Advice on creating duplicate backup server

Hi, Instead of trying to sync the pool, can't you just run a second BackupPC server that also backs up your machines? If you don't need the current backup history on the redundant server, save yourself the pain of the initial pool copy and just follow this path - presuming network and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Local rsync backup aborts randomly II

Hi Les, Just a guess, but this sounds like a mismatch between CPAN and distro-packaged perl modules. This can happen when you install a new version via CPAN, then subsequently overwrite some component with an older incompatible version with distribution packages updates that know

[BackupPC-users] Local rsync backup aborts randomly

Hi folks, I have a very strange behaviour with BackupPC on a XEN VM instance with SuSE 10.3 x86_64. BackupPC is configured to back up some local directories with sudo rsync. The capacity of these directories is about 45 GB. No matter whether I let BackupPCd start the backup or I do it manually,

[BackupPC-users] Local rsync backup aborts randomly II

Hi folks, sorry about that mail before, some additional information here ... I have a very strange behaviour with BackupPC on a XEN VM instance with SuSE 10.3 x86_64. BackupPC is configured to back up some local directories with sudo rsync. The capacity of these directories is about 45 GB. I'm